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The Highline Trail, Glacier National Park
On our second day at Glacier National Park, Matt and I woke at 4am, pulled on our warmest hiking gear, grabbed breakfast, and drove into the park right at dawn. Our plan was to hike half of the Highline Trail that morning. Due to its popularity, we knew we had to get an early start to get a parking spot. We arrived at the Logan Pass parking lot and visitor center around 6am, and the lot was already filling up. The Highline Trail is 15.2 miles round trip, and guide books rate it as “strenuous.” Because the trail has reached almost folkloric levels of fame in the hiking zeitgeist for…
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Glacier National Park, Montana
Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God’s wild blessings will search you and soak you as if your were a sponge, and the big days will go uncounted . . . in a few minutes you will find yourself in the midst of what you are sure to say is the best care-killing scenery on the continent – beautiful lakes derived straight from glaciers, lofty mountains steeped in lovely nemophila-blue skies and clad with forests and glaciers, mossy ferny waterfalls in their hollows, nameless and numberless, and meadowy gardens abounding in the best of everything . . . The time will not be taken from the…
